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Why did I believe Oliver Sacks?

Eye You13 Dec 2025 23:39 UTC

70 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

In Favor of Inkhaven-But-Less

Alice Blair13 Dec 2025 23:16 UTC

26 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Micro-visions for AI-powered online content

Alexandre Variengien13 Dec 2025 23:05 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(alexandrevariengien.com)

When is it Worth Working?

foodforthought13 Dec 2025 21:40 UTC

23 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] What does “lattice of abstraction” mean?

Adam Zerner13 Dec 2025 21:19 UTC

11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Filler tokens don’t allow sequential reasoning

Brendan Long13 Dec 2025 20:22 UTC

76 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Hogwarts’ 2025 Winter Secular Solstice Celebration

Espedair Street13 Dec 2025 19:55 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Toss a bitcoin to your Lightcone – LW + Lighthaven’s 2026 fundraiser

habryka13 Dec 2025 19:32 UTC

316 points

129 comments52 min readLW link

“Smarter brains run on sparsely connected neurons”

Pjain13 Dec 2025 18:27 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bio.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)

Whack-a-mole: generalisation resistance could be facilitated by training-distribution imprintation

lennie13 Dec 2025 17:46 UTC

27 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Zagreb meetup: winter 2025

dominicq13 Dec 2025 17:10 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

jefftk13 Dec 2025 13:10 UTC

125 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing)

Kaj_Sotala13 Dec 2025 12:38 UTC

203 points

71 comments29 min readLW link

The Inevitable Evolution of AI Agents

Steven McCulloch13 Dec 2025 11:51 UTC

39 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Permanently Padding a Suitcase

jefftk13 Dec 2025 3:10 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Is the Constructible Universe All There Is?

GenericModel13 Dec 2025 2:29 UTC

18 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(enrichedjamsham.substack.com)

Wages under superintelligence

Zachary Brown13 Dec 2025 0:06 UTC

33 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(beforeporcelain.substack.com)

Trust is Neither Scalar Nor a Snapshot

phoenix13 Dec 2025 0:05 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Superweight Damage Repair in OLMo-1B utilizing a Single Row Patch (CPU-only Experiment)

sunmoonron13 Dec 2025 0:03 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

What’s guaranteed in Life?

shanzson12 Dec 2025 21:27 UTC

−6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating LLM hypothesis generation in biology is hard.

Austin Morrissey12 Dec 2025 20:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Book Review: The Age of Fighting Sail

Suspended Reason12 Dec 2025 20:15 UTC

63 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

U.S. Democracy Threat Index: $10,000 in Forecasting Prizes

ChristianWilliams12 Dec 2025 19:43 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Conditional On Long-Range Signal, Ising Still Factors Locally

johnswentworth and David Lorell

12 Dec 2025 19:31 UTC

37 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Leading models take chilling tradeoffs in realistic scenarios, new research finds

Mordechai Rorvig12 Dec 2025 18:27 UTC

−2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foommagazine.org)

Wittgenstein was wrong

Ben (Berlin)12 Dec 2025 16:33 UTC

3 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026

Zvi12 Dec 2025 14:40 UTC

29 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Information in circulation is self-organised critical. Small changes in environment can make large, discontinuous changes in the information space.

puffymist12 Dec 2025 14:16 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI self-replication roundup

tbs12 Dec 2025 14:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(meditationsondigitalminds.substack.com)

The Fly Farm

J Bostock12 Dec 2025 13:24 UTC

31 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

New 80k problem profile: extreme power concentration

rosehadshar12 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

48 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

The point of view of the universe

Alexandre Variengien12 Dec 2025 12:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(alexandrevariengien.com)

The Fantastic Piece of Tinfoil in my Wallet

jefftk12 Dec 2025 3:30 UTC

60 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AISN #66: Evaluating Frontier Models, New Gemini and Claude, Preemption is Back

Nick_Stockton12 Dec 2025 3:10 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(aisafety.substack.com)

Annals of Counterfactual Han

GenericModel12 Dec 2025 1:11 UTC

49 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(enrichedjamsham.substack.com)

Does dissolving newcomb’s paradox matter?

Srdjan Miletic12 Dec 2025 1:06 UTC

16 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.dissent.blog)

ARC-AGI-2 human baseline surpassed (updated)

Tim H12 Dec 2025 0:10 UTC

21 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

ASI Already Knows About Torture—In Defense of Talking Openly About S-Risks

KatWoods11 Dec 2025 21:15 UTC

−9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Cognitive Tech from Algorithmic Information Theory

Cole Wyeth11 Dec 2025 20:32 UTC

43 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program

jasoncrawford11 Dec 2025 18:33 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Weird Generalization & Inductive Backdoors

Jorio Cocola, Owain_Evans and Dylan Feng

11 Dec 2025 18:18 UTC

153 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

The tree, the fly, the ant, the dog, the farmer and the businessman

Alexandre Variengien11 Dec 2025 17:56 UTC

14 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(alexandrevariengien.com)

Ships in the Night – A Short Story

Dhruv Sumathi11 Dec 2025 17:11 UTC

15 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

My AGI safety research—2025 review, ’26 plans

Steven Byrnes11 Dec 2025 17:05 UTC

137 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Thinking through a lens of physiology

Vadim Golub11 Dec 2025 16:55 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, another semi-outsider review

manueldelrio11 Dec 2025 15:43 UTC

50 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

North Sentinelese Post-Singularity

Cleo Nardo11 Dec 2025 14:57 UTC

78 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Flock – work in public with friends (beta testers wanted)

henryaj11 Dec 2025 14:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #146: Chipping In

Zvi11 Dec 2025 14:22 UTC

42 points

6 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sea snails in a cocaine vaccine

Alexandre Variengien11 Dec 2025 14:22 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link